This week’s musical feast

When a double glazing salesperson turns up on your
doorstep and tells you how much warmer your house will be, how much more satisfied
you’ll feel about your lot in life, even on a grey fug of a February day, if only
you’d order new PVC windows from them - it’s patter.

When The Apprentice sends a bicker of the ‘finest
business brains in the UK’ (disguised, for some reason, as petty dunderheads)
to harass the public into buying claptrap, the convoluted, persuasive lies they
use – cycling proficiency Jedi mind tricks - it's patter.

You could be forgiven for thinking that everything in
this modern day world of ours, that isn’t a banker’s bonus or storm damage, is
patter.